Today I learned...

Illidanstorm

Hopefully you like the idea: Tell something you learned about DAZ3D today or recently and we can have a thread of helpful things some may don't know yet.

I learned today that you can active OptiX Acceleration at Render Settings > Advanced cutting my render times in half.

Linwelly

Today I learned that whiile downloading and saving new stuff DS should not be open. If its open metadata are sometimes not properly saved, so you won't see the item im smart content. If you want to get the metadata updated you con go to the content library tab rightclick on the tab and select "content DB maintenance click reimport Metadata accept, uncheck mark as new and look at other checkboxes in the next popup -> go

when you then look again in the smart content panel make sure you open the default pointer ( I had half a heart attack when I saw absolutely nothing in my smart content folder...)

 

Richard Haseltine

Linwelly said:

Today I learned that whiile downloading and saving new stuff DS should not be open. If its open metadata are sometimes not properly saved, so you won't see the item im smart content. If you want to get the metadata updated you con go to the content library tab rightclick on the tab and select "content DB maintenance click reimport Metadata accept, uncheck mark as new and look at other checkboxes in the next popup -> go

when you then look again in the smart content panel make sure you open the default pointer ( I had half a heart attack when I saw absolutely nothing in my smart content folder...)

There shouldn't be an issue with having DS and DIM open together - you are more likely to get an issue if you close DS and immediately start DIM (or vice versa) as PostgreSQL may still be closing from the one when the other starts, and sees it running, and so doesn't restart it.

Linwelly

Richard Haseltine said:

Linwelly said:

Today I learned that whiile downloading and saving new stuff DS should not be open. If its open metadata are sometimes not properly saved, so you won't see the item im smart content. If you want to get the metadata updated you con go to the content library tab rightclick on the tab and select "content DB maintenance click reimport Metadata accept, uncheck mark as new and look at other checkboxes in the next popup -> go

when you then look again in the smart content panel make sure you open the default pointer ( I had half a heart attack when I saw absolutely nothing in my smart content folder...)

There shouldn't be an issue with having DS and DIM open together - you are more likely to get an issue if you close DS and immediately start DIM (or vice versa) as PostgreSQL may still be closing from the one when the other starts, and sees it running, and so doesn't restart it.

It's mentioned like that in the help desk topics  https://helpdaz.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/207530533?input_string=smart+content go to the end of the text the part in italics

Cris Palomino

Linwelly said:

Richard Haseltine said:

Linwelly said:

Today I learned that whiile downloading and saving new stuff DS should not be open. If its open metadata are sometimes not properly saved, so you won't see the item im smart content. If you want to get the metadata updated you con go to the content library tab rightclick on the tab and select "content DB maintenance click reimport Metadata accept, uncheck mark as new and look at other checkboxes in the next popup -> go

when you then look again in the smart content panel make sure you open the default pointer ( I had half a heart attack when I saw absolutely nothing in my smart content folder...)

There shouldn't be an issue with having DS and DIM open together - you are more likely to get an issue if you close DS and immediately start DIM (or vice versa) as PostgreSQL may still be closing from the one when the other starts, and sees it running, and so doesn't restart it.

It's mentioned like that in the help desk topics  https://helpdaz.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/207530533?input_string=smart+content go to the end of the text the part in italics

This is not accurate (and the individual that posted it no longer works for the company); it should be reported so that it can be corrected. You may need to right-click and "Refresh" to get newly installed assets to appear in the displayed results, but one of the reasons the database backend was changed to PostgreSQL was to address the instability in Valentina. PostgreSQL is much more stable, much better at handling concurrent connections, and much better at transaction queuing.

Linwelly

Surprising, as the opening text was posted (or at least edited in January 2017, which should be well into PostgreSQL times. I've see there are some oder comments below, so the original seems older.

Anyway, I'm going to give Helpdesk a headsup for that.

daveso

Illidanstorm said:

Hopefully you like the idea: Tell something you learned about DAZ3D today or recently and we can have a thread of helpful things some may don't know yet.

I learned today that you can active OptiX Acceleration at Render Settings > Advanced cutting my render times in half.

that must be for GPU rendering?  I tried it a bit ago and saw no difference. i have CPU rendering only. 

Illidanstorm

Yes only for Nvidia GPU's.